re: System peculiarities...

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Hello all.

<On 08May2007 12:56 William L. Hartzell wrote a message to All
regarding Re: System peculiarities... >

[snip]
ml> In the standard OS/2 DOS AUTOEXEC.BAT, what does the line:
ml> "LOADHIGH APPEND C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM" (immediately after
ml> the PATH statement.) do ? Any help on these items will be
ml> VERY much appreciated!

S> These are DOS commands. LOADHIGH loads a program/driver
S> into high memory to free up low (conventional 640k limited)
S> memory.

ml> I'm aware of that part, having grown up in DOS/DesqVIEW
ml> world for quite a few years. :-)

S> APPEND is like a PATH command for data access.

ml> That makes it somewhat different than the traditional DOS
ml> Append command.

WLH> Append is a DOS command. Does not work under OS/2.
[snip]

Eh?? We were not talking about OS/2, William. We were talking
about the "Loadhigh Append" statement in the default OS/2-DOS
AUTOEXEC.BAT file. (Read before reply has always been a good
guide.) :)

Best regards,
Marc
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